Contemplative in the Mud

Pain Makes Me Become Like You

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Benjamin Embley

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St Gregory Illuminator Armenian Church in Singapore

Love calls for courage on my part
But pain’s own blessing feels my heart,
For pain makes me become like you
And leads me to your kingdom, too.
I feel true blessing in my pain;
Such suffering for me is gain,
For what your providence will do
Is make me one, my God, with you.
Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881–1942)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

3 responses to “Pain Makes Me Become Like You”

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    sandyfaithking

    Beautiful words and extraordinarily beautiful sculpture. What do you know of the sculpture, please?

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      I took the picture of the sculpture on the grounds of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Singapore a few years back. The statue is still there. There are several in the series, but I don’t who made them.

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        sandyfaithking

        Thank you.

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